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Commoning Care: Feminist Degrowth Visions for a Socio-Ecological Transformation

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  • Corinna Dengler
  • Miriam Lang

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This paper addresses the question of how to organize care in degrowth societies that call for social and ecological sustainability, as well as gender and environmental justice, without prioritizing one over the other. By building on degrowth scholarship, feminist economics, the commons, and decolonial feminisms, we rebut the strategy of shifting yet more unpaid care work to the monetized economy, thereby reinforcing the separation structure in economics. A feminist degrowth imaginary implies destabilizing prevalent dichotomies and overcoming the (inherent hierarchization in the) boundary between the monetized economy and the invisibilized economy of socio-ecological provisioning. The paper proposes an incremental, emancipatory decommodification and a commonization of care in a sphere beyond the public/private divide, namely the sphere of communitarian and transformative caring commons, as they persist at the margins of capitalism and are (re-)created by social movements around the world.HIGHLIGHTS Degrowth aims at creating human flourishing within planetary boundaries.As feminist degrowth scholarship, this study discusses degrowth visions for care work.It problematizes the shifting of yet more unpaid care work to the monetized economy.Instead, it proposes collective (re)organization in the sphere of the commons.Caring commons are no automatism for a gender-just redistribution of care work.

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  • Corinna Dengler & Miriam Lang, 2022. "Commoning Care: Feminist Degrowth Visions for a Socio-Ecological Transformation," Feminist Economics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 28(1), pages 1-28, January.
  • Handle: RePEc:taf:femeco:v:28:y:2022:i:1:p:1-28
    DOI: 10.1080/13545701.2021.1942511
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    1. Gräbner-Radkowitsch, Claudius & Strunk, Birte, 2023. "Degrowth and the Global South: The twin problem of global dependencies," Ecological Economics, Elsevier, vol. 213(C).
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    3. Schröder, Dominik & Davies, Clem, 2023. "Some regulatory foundations of UBI in Germany," FRIBIS Policy Debate April 11, 2023, University of Freiburg, Freiburg Institute for Basic Income Studies (FRIBIS).
    4. Polewsky, Max & Hankammer, Stephan & Kleer, Robin & Antons, David, 2024. "Degrowth vs. Green Growth. A computational review and interdisciplinary research agenda," Ecological Economics, Elsevier, vol. 217(C).
    5. Richard Bärnthaler & Andreas Novy & Lea Arzberger & Astrid Krisch & Hans Volmary, 2024. "The power to transform structures: power complexes and the challenges for realising a wellbeing economy," Palgrave Communications, Palgrave Macmillan, vol. 11(1), pages 1-16, December.
    6. Kuhls, Sonia, 2024. "Overcoming the jobs-versus-environment dilemma: A feminist analysis of the foundational economy," IPE Working Papers 226/2024, Berlin School of Economics and Law, Institute for International Political Economy (IPE).
    7. Buch-Hansen, Hubert & Nesterova, Iana, 2023. "Less and more: Conceptualising degrowth transformations," Ecological Economics, Elsevier, vol. 205(C).

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